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- From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Home Planned for Quayle Memorabilia
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:04:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.134957.2808@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Dylan) writes:
- |> Taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec 92
- |> without permission.
- |.
- |> The mangled law degree? The dog chewed it.
- |>
- |> Home Planned for Quayle memorabilia
- |>
- |> Associated Press
- |> Huntington, Inc. - some enterprising Hoosiers want to tap those
- |> special tourists who want to visit Indiana to see memorabilia of
- |> the soon-to-be-former vice president, Dan Quayle.
- |> Memorabilia such as his Little League uniform. Or his Indiana
- |> University Law degree, partially chewed by a family dog.
- |> It would be the nation's first vice presidential museum.
- |> The Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation wants to house the Quayle
- |> Center and Museum in an old church here in his home town, and open
- |> it in May.
- |> "We're talking about Dan Quayle's life, his family, his political
- |> career, the fact that this is history in the making for the state
- |> of Indiana," said foundation spokesman David A. Schenkel. "We're
- |> documenting as much as we can, for future generations to enjoy."
- |> The group has displayed memorabilia on the 44th vice president for
- |> two years at the Huntington City-Township Library and Huntington
- |> College.
- |> More than 12,000 people have visited those displays, but with the
- |> collection growing and the church up for sale, the foundation board
- |> decided the time was right for a permanent home, Schenkel said.
- |> Barbara B. Hancher, president of the Huntington County Chamber of
- |> Commerce, said a Quayle museum would be good for retailers.
- |> "The kind of people who would come to a Quayle museum are also the
- |> kinds of people who might take the time to wander into an antique
- |> shop or a gift shop or look at the community a little bit more than
- |> some," Hancher said.
-
- Gee, it seems this museum might be in severe danger of missing several
- major aspects of Danoe's life. Maybe some kind soul(s) could offer to
- the new museum:
-
- a) A leather-bound copy of the Quayle Quotes File (or, in a pinch,
- one on a toilet-paper roll...:^)
-
- b) A mint collection of the Quayle Quarterly's full publication set.
-
- c) A videotape loop of Lloyd Bentsen saying "You're no Jack Kennedy."
-
- d) A second videotape loop of selected Quaylisms. Sort of his own
- eternal flame, not quite a la JFK...:^) Selected items might include:
-
- I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle
- My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will
- never, never surrender to what is right.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle speaking to the Christian
- Coalition about the need for abstinence to avoid AIDS,
- 11/15/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle defending his opinions about
- the TV show "Murphy Brown" [Las Vegas RJ 21 May 92]
- I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle discussing how he
- copes with criticism from the media elite, 6/9/92
- (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- This president is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle at a campaign stop at CA State
- University, Fresno, 1/17/92
- It shows "us vs. them," and I'm on the "us" side.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle explaining the strategy behind
- his twitting of "cultural elites."
- (The Indianapolis Star, 6/14/92 - taken from the Quayle
- Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1992)
- It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
- our air and water that are doing it.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle
-
- (With thanks to Mike Goldman)
-
- - Don Coolidge
-